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  • Best album of the 90's.

  • 2 people had there Pinkerton chopped off.....

  • Used to love this song but then one day I remembered the sesame street theme song music and now the chorus sounds hella annoying. Sounds almost identical.

  • most underated weezer album

  • @nerddroid lol, good one.

  • Best song on the album.

  • RIP Mikey Welsh. 

  • get a plane ticket man.

  • @jeak456 the earthquake only hit a small portion of the coastline, shes probably okay

  • 1 person is from across the sea

  • @jeak456 It's OK she died in A gas attack.

  • HUH?

  • who's the 1 douchebag that disliked??

  • Can anyone explain to me the song?? cuz he was talking about an 18 year old japanese girl and then he's talking about his mom ?? :/

  • @sfsf96 When Rivers was in Harvard, a Japanese girl sent him a letter, he was lonely and it cheered him up ("I need help, and you're way across the sea").

    c: "I've got your letter, you've got my song." I guess he's just wondering what caused her to write the letter and is interested in who she is.

    Pretty cute right?

  • @GearTier Yeah! but Why does he mention his mother?

  • @sfsf96 Rivers believed that his mother caused his romantic faults "It's all your fault, momma" :c

    I hope they play this song when I see them with the Flaming Lips (28th) :D

  • @sfsf96 This is easy. Just think = the guy in america asked his mom to go to japan to meet the 18-yrd-old-girl, but his mother said no... and then the girl left him because she found out she was wasting her time dating a guy across the sea. and then the boy blames his mother saying *its all your fault, moma... all your falt*. thats what i think. what do u think?

  • I dedicated this to my girlfriend, then she broke my heart. And moved xD

  • 2012 the messiah, Rivers Cuomo will return to us

  • my girl's in germany. she's going to miss her first 4th of july...this song makes me think about her, and miss her...more..

  • somwhere62...... MissFashionDesign........ god i hope you guys are right:/ but i'll always love them.

  • This is mine and my friends song.. I Met him by chance on this webestie... he lives in canda and i live in the UK.. < 3

  • Soundtrack to a past. I forget you guys can listen to this too. Ha I forget Weezer isn't family... I love Rivers Cuomo and the gang and they need not do anything more to prove their genius. =W=

  • ... this is a really pretty song, but... im having trouble figuring out the meaning... is he singing about a fangirl, and... eh, its just all a bit creepy to me lol. me loves weezer though!!!!!

  • @goldenwolfhowler444 Yeah, it's about some fan who wrote to him from Japan or something.

  • @arcademachines Yeah something about how he was lonely in Harvard, and some fan from Japan wrote to him and told him all about herself. Then he realised that he'd never meet her, and he'd fallen in love with her because of her letter? It's all a bit weird, he said something about it in an interview.

  • @MissFashionDesign I've prayed about this nightly for about 2 years straight.

  • Pinkerton seems like a cool place to live....

  • Seeing them in August! Going to be a sick festival!

  • This is me and my mates songs :') He lives in Canida and i live in the Uk Yet we are such good friends :')

  • This is a little creepy not going to lie.

  • @1992Ignorance Especially the line 'I wonder how you touch yourself,' especially when it follows the line 'I wonder what clothes you wear to school' :/

    Great song all the same...

  • I think Hurley is a return to form :)

  • WEEZER FUCK YES

  • this song is about me

    would tell you more but i gotta go make some sushi

  • 2:28~3:00

    俺にとってのweezerの全てがここに詰まってる。

    この間奏に泣かされたのは俺だけじゃないはず。

  • rivers cuomo wrote this about a BOY in japan. he was advised to change the lyrics.

  • @AnonHateMachine Y'all are postin' in a troll thread!

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  • I look like buddy holly

  • @spy4400 Dude, Blue Album!!

  • WTF ONE DISLIKE WTF

  • Well, I hear that the recent earthquake moved Japan 13 feet toward the US, so at least they're not as far apart any more.

  • @DougTreyo lol'd

  • I could never touch you, I think it would be wrong.

  • It's all your fault, mama...it's ALL YOUR FAUULT!

  • 2:58 - 3:14 is my favorite part. that's how breakdowns should be.

  • touche!!

  • I love Weezer, but this song is just creepy.

  • @TheAdvilMonkey The creepiness is what makes it beyond marvelous. It perfectly captures the longing nature of wanting to find someone to be intimate with and the crazy desperation people go through to achieve that. It just wouldn't be the same song without lines like "I wonder how you touch yourself", it'd be a diluted piece of emotion with a pretty arrangement. And that's a big statement, because to me, this is the best song that Rivers has ever penned, that creepiness is key.

  • @TheAdvilMonkey That's why it's great. XD

  • this song reminds me of my amazing girlfreind, exept i never really wonderd how she touched herself until i heard this.

  • @qamko41 Dude...

  • Everyone is going to loose all faith in weezer

    Then.. When no one likes them. Their gonna make a new album and it will be better then pinkerton and blue, and everyone will be like. Rivers Cuomo is a genius. A Real Genius

  • @MissFashionDesign I hope you're right.

  • @MissFashionDesign I'm never giving up hope. Hurley was a tiny spark of hope in my gut that they were going to come back and rock our faces in half.

  • @MissFashionDesign i like that idea and everything...but i just dont know how theyre gonna out-do perfection. they are soooo amazingg.

  • @MissFashionDesign I really, really want this to be true.

  • @MissFashionDesign yea whens that gunna happen???

  • @MissFashionDesign Sorry to be a grammar Nazi but it's lose, not loose :)

  • @MissFashionDesign I will never lose faith in =W=

  • It's all your fault, momma. It's all your god damn fault.

  • This was voted number 40 in a list of The Best 50 Album Tracks (that weren't hits) in The Sunday Telegraph.

  • @1planetzarg1 i didn't know about this song until reading it. thank god!(:

  • waruku naine.

  • I wonder if these lyrics would be accepted in todays obssesively politically correct society? What am I chatting, everyone hated this album when it came out. bastards.

  • @lidrvic89 Considering some of the repugnant shit you hear on the radio (which even I'm frankly surprised they get away with since I'd consider myself pretty liberal with lyrics), this would probably be considered pretty tame.

  • They will NEVER top this.

  • And this song reminds me of you, Sam. (I'll just change "girl" to "boy") :)

  • @yoyopay aaaawwwwwwwwwwwww :P

  • this song reminds me of Myca

  • It's hard to decide, but Pinkerton seems to never get old....It may in fact be weezer's best album ever. I remember hearing it for the first time, and I didn't know quite what to think...there was something about it that kept me putting back in the cd player over and over again.

  • lets get back to 90's .... miss this song

  • pinkerton is an amazing album, i know they have made alot o shit too but this is awesome !

  • I love this song ! =W= Weezer Rocks ! ! !

  • I love this song ! =W= Weezer Rocks ! ! !

  • the funny thing is that everything being said here by you all are actual quotes from what wikipedia has to say about the song lol

  • this song tells such a touching story!

  • @MrJesawyer No it doesn't... It's about how pathetic Rivers life was, and specifically how he got sexual satisfaction from a letter that a girl in Japan wrote to him...

  • @Jackimole someone doesn't have a romantic bone in his body. have fun with your boring, sad life, my friend.

  • @MrJesawyer That is literally what the song was writtin about, not my interpretation...

  • @Jackimole i never suggested otherwise. my comment was referring to your attitude toward the writer of the song and his experience. what may be considered pathetic by one, is seen as a thing of beauty others.

  • @MrJesawyer

    "So I sniff

    and I lick

    your envelope and fall to little pieces every time

    I wonder what clothes you wear to school

    I wonder how you decorate your room

    I wonder how you touch yourself

    and curse myself for being across the sea"

    I'm not sure many people would call that "touching"

  • @Jackimole why are you on here if you don't like weezer? please, stop spamming this page. and jeswayer, i completely agree with you!

  • @livingthelife194 He does like Weezer you moron. Ive seen him on other videos. He is pointing out what the meaning of the song is. Rivers himself said it was about his pathetic life and about him getting a sexual kick out of recieving a letter from japan.

  • @danielbutlerosim chillllllll no need to write a paragraph over it.

  • @livingthelife194 It took me 10 seconds to write that. Hardly a Paragraph.

  • @danielbutlerosim It sounds kind of deeper than that

  • @dubified89 I understand that but that's what the song is about. Rivers has said it on many occasions. The emotion is probably the reason why pnkerton in my opinion is their best album.

  • @livingthelife194 I love weezer they're my favorite band, this song is amazing, I'm just saying it's not really a happy story.

  • @Jackimole ah ok , sorry man, my mistake! yeah, weezer's my favorite band too.

  • @Jackimole i must respectfully disagree, my friend.

  • @MrJesawyer He's right. Its what the song is about.

  • This song perfectly sums up Weezer, especially Rivers

  • "spelt"??? 

  • @MySoundGarden What are you doing out of the kitchen? Shouldn't you be making sammitches?

  • @Useless2112 LMAO...I didn't write that comment...I wouldn't write anything that rude....but my HUSBAND would!! I guess you attempted to "google"...I would bet on my husband being correct...he has a genious IQ. Thankyou for standing up for me honey...Im not a Weezer fan. You have a great day "useless"

  • @MySoundGarden it's spelled genius, guess it didn't rub off on you.

  • They're going to come back. I can just feel it.

  • @somwhere62

    HURLEY is gonna be sickkk

    btw, rivers said in a recent interview that he's planning blue/pinkerton tour where they play the entirety of blue album in one night and the entirety of pinkerton the next night in the city!

    i have a video about this with more details! it's gonnna be sickkkkk! xoxo

  • @somwhere62 God I hope so.

  • @somwhere62 hurley! ☺

  • @somwhere62 you're going to get disappointed. I can just feel it. :P

  • @somwhere62

    When were they gone you clown?

  • @somwhere62 sadly, "Can't Stop Partying" seems to have killed this beautiful, beautiful dream...

  • new weezer album coming out yay

  • 3:44 - 3:51 is probably the best moment in Weezer history.

  • @the4dumbpigs I would say 3:44 til the end of the song... including the last "I've got your letterrrrrr, you've got my song"

  • The problem with Raditude is that it's clearly made simply and obviously to be marketed. It's not art. It's regurgitated pop rock music with zero soul or intuition. Pinkerton had emotion, passion, and vigor (as did Blue to some extent). THAT'S what sets it apart from other Weezer albums, and of course he didn't have to 're-write' Pinkerton over and over, but he could have kept making genuine, honest music. "Beverly Hills"? Honest? Get real, he couldn't pen a quality tune to save his life now.

  • @bamlaflamme well, as long Raditude or any of the other records aren't meant to be honest and meaningfull, i don't mind, there's still some nice songs and stuff like run over by a truck is genius.

  • @bamlaflamme Dude from what i have heard their new album is beast, and i really think rivers is trying to return to their roots, one bad album is not the end of a carreer.

  • This song makes me think of someone that was really close to me from JP, I miss her dearly. This was a song she felt the same of me. 私は逃す, 希望同じを感じる

  • Pinkerton is great. People need to stop hoping for Rivers to write another Pinkerton though. He's a different person now. He writes what he feels. He doesn't feel this way anymore.

    That said, I still love Weezer. Even the new stuff.

  • When I listen to this song when I'm in Afghanistan, i get all misty. And yes non gay marines do get misty sometimes. Ha Ha

  • i always love this song....remind me when i was dating my wife..!

  • best weezer album in my opinion...

  • people give "new" weezer shit. Hey, if people didn't like Pinkerton style music when it first came out, they tried a formula that got them hits. This is Rivers life in these songs which is great. But now he doesn't care and just wants to have fun. I like Raditiude for what it is. Short, catchy riff, fun songs. Pinkerton and Blue will always be my favorite, but i still think there new stuff is fun. I like it when weezer does different things. I'd get bored if Pinkerton was the only sound made.

  • @LastManStandingNow

    Yours is probably the definitive comment on the New vs. Old Weezer debate.

  • is it me or are the first line kinda rasist? haha either way they still kick major ass! =w= forever!

  • @davito208 its written about a real letter rivers got from a 18 year old Japanese girl...so it might just be you

  • @davito208 How are they racist?

  • @davito208 No?

  • LOST

  • @PerhapsPossibly tonight!

  • @renicanfly Hell yeah

  • @PerhapsPossibly that episode ended up sucking ass though, hopefully the last two kick ass

  • Pinkerton = best weezer album of all time.

  • @spy4400 Blue?

  • @spy4400

    pinkerton = best album of all time

  • @spy4400 I think that the "Blue Album" isn't just their best cd, but one of the greatest cd's of all time. Yet, I can remember calling the cd store every day asking if Pinkerton had come out yet. Most highly anticipated cd release for me, and, at first, I was disappointed. But I came to love this cd eventually, It's an amazing disc, and I think it shows Weezer's range better than any of their other stuff. This song proves it. Deep, deep stuff. Plus, this is with the original band.

  • @bawhite125 i completely agree every song on blue is a masterpiece there are some songs on pinkerton that just drag the album down don't get me wrong there both great but blue is so much better to me

  • @theguy134 can't deny taste, even if you're totally wrong. 

  • And thus, Rivers Cuomo didst proclaim himself a paedophile.

  • @Useless2112 : Your screen-name is fitting, you are useless. How is someone a pedophile when they're speaking of someone who is 18 years old? This song was written in 1996, Rivers was 25 years old singing in reference to an 18 year old girl, how does that make him a pedophile? I'll give you a hint, it doesn't. P.S. Before you write something so dumb, at least spell your insult correctly; "paedophile" and "didst"...man you're a moron.

  • @MySoundGarden Your name is fitting, you're a vegetable.

    A grown man having sexual fantasies about a schoolgirl is creepy. Adding a caveat that she's 18 years old leads me to the conclusion that he is fully aware that it is creepy, and it doesn't detract from the fact that he's singing about having sexual fantasies about a schoolgirl. I don't *actually* believe Rivers Cuomo is a paedophile. Nonetheless, I do think he's creepy.

  • @Useless2112 it's not that creepy if she's just a few years under. A pedophile is someone who likes kids

  • @dubified89 the part in the middle is weird though, about being a monk for older women?

  • @dubified89

    It's another way of rephrasing the sentiment in the "it's all your fault, mama" section. Think about the character and values that we associate with Monks and then think about how he blames his mother (an older woman) for making him a nice, meek (emasculated) nice guy who can't go get what he wants.

  • @MySoundGarden P.S. I spelt both words correctly. In Latin, "paedo-" means "child" and "pedo-" basically means "walking". Therefore a "paedophile" is someone who is sexually attracted to children (like Rivers Cuomo roflroflrofl) while a "pedophile" is the retarded American perversion of the actual word. "Didst" is an archaic singular past-tense version of the word "do". I can't be held responsible for your being too dumb to learn the English language.

  • @MySoundGarden try learning english english, it'll make you look like less of an arse(that means ass) when you try to correct spelling.

  • Best song ever

  • i listened to "Can't Stop Partying" from the Ratitude album. its almost heartbreaking what weezer is doing now.

  • @CameronWasmund what do you mean?

  • what a sad song.

  • seriously everyone? weezer is one of the most original sounds in music. every album sounds different...why would anyone want to listen to the same music all the time? Raditude is somewhat reminiscent of The Cars - and I love it! Not a big fan of the Lil Wayne track, but hey, its a different sound and its a fun change of pace. I will say that Pinkerton is one of my favorite albums, mostly because of Matt Sharp's contributions on the album

  • you guys, you love a band once, you love them always.

    i don't neccessarily like their newest album, "Raditude", but i still LOVE the band, regardless.

    you know them, they like to experiment with their sound. i mean, they've been around since fucking 1992. give them a break.

    we can just hope that they'll go back to their pinkerton sound eventually, because this shit is amazing. <3

  • 5* Not just for the Song, For Pinkerton in Generall...

    R.I.P. Old Weezer; If you want to record techno albums with Lil Wayne instead of writing songs like this, that is your choice, Just as it is mine not to listen.

  • Well the world pretty much shit in Weezer's face when this album came out. Talked about how much it sucked. Not to mention Pinkerton and the feelings and mindset that went into making it cannot be replicated endlessly.

  • @TheTerrorUforgot The world shit in Weezer's face when Pinkerton came out too. Look at the album now.

  • When I said this album, I meant Pinkerton. What I'm saying is that Weezer's effort on this album was snubbed and insulted, and thus they probably weren't eager to make another like it.

    People saying that more albums should be like this and the Blue Album are being a little naive. The circumstances and mentality it took to create those two albums isn't a cookie-cutter formula Rivers and Weezer can do over and over again.

  • @TheTerrorUforgot Oh sorry i didnt understand. I agree.

  • weezer was the shit back then

    !!

  • @jesusdapnk1 you're kidding me. Weezer is a lot worse now. I love the old sound of this band. When Mikey left, this band went downhill. Even after Pinkerton, this band started going supar mainstream

  • yea thats what i said

    i said weezer was the SHIT as in they were awesome! hahahahaha

  • @jesusdapnk1 haha i didnt see the "the"! my bad broski!

  • So you send me

    your love

    from all around the world

    As if I could live on words and dreams and a million screams

    oh, how I need a hand in mine to feel.

    So poignant. Love this

  • I totally agree. My favorite part as well.

  • pinkerton Is a landmark album Period

  • weezer at their finest. truly a great song

  • pinkerton is the most nostalgic album ever!!!!!!!! still great.

  • Out of all the Weezer songs, this one is my favorite. The drums are so boomy and organic. I think people relate to this album more than any recent albums because everything Weezer records now is digital. The Blue Album and Pinkerton were recorded to 2" analog tape compared to other albums. The performances are real in these recordings, and analog is difficult to edit unlike protools now.

  • This album captures everything about being a 16 year old...for me anyways

  • @poolisclosedaids i feel the same way. bein im 16, and they just connect with me.

  • i wonder if the critics feel like dumb asses now?

  • @SuperWeezerFan Those critics should be ashamed of themselves.

  • @SuperWeezerFan what do you mean? if they said it was bad then they are dumb asses regardless haha

  • @SuperWeezerFan They honestly should. Pinkerton is Weezer's best album. You have to remember though, they were comparing it to Blue Album. Blue Album and Pinkerton were two completely different times in River's life. Critic's aren't ready for change. They need more Aguilera and Lady Gaga remix album's to jam down their listening hole and make their mind's speak utter bullshit about them that record companies pay these people to say.

  • @SuperWeezerFan love the space between dumb and asses xD

  • @SuperWeezerFan

    The album was well received by critics around the world. It just didn't sell...

  • imagine if this album was well received and praised instead of bashed when it came out, then rivers would of have kept making music like this! what if eh?

    =w= rules!!!!

  • @86entourage Canadian?

  • @86entourage

    He did! there's a plethora of weezer b-sides(i made a playlist of them i think it might be public on my profile). Google "songs from the black hole", the album that Pinkerton would have been.